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Rogier Gasseling

CFO

Rogier is the consummate corporate finance executive with a penchant for helping entrepreneurial organizations commercialize and thrive. He has demonstrated a career-long ability to strike exactly the right balance between careful risk management and the kind of responsive, opportunistic deal-making that drives growth.

Having worked closely with Velocity Capital CEO Willem Willemstein for more than a decade as a trusted corporate finance advisor, Rogier has been at Willem’s side through a number of successful IPO, M&A and LBO transactions. As chief financial officer for Velocity Capital, Rogier is intimately involved in all of the private equity and venture capital dealings of the firm, spanning both real estate and financial technology investments.

Before joining Velocity Capital in 2009, Rogier led the Asian rollout of a successful currency fund for the Belgian Bank Fortis Bank. Prior to Fortis, he was head of corporate finance and treasury at Petroplus, a publicly-traded oil refining company co-founded by Willem. He started his career at Royal Vopak.

Rogier’s role at Velocity Capital also enables him to exercise two keen personal interests: his enthusiasm for travel, which has taken him to all corners of the globe, as well as his strong affinity for new technologies that power our financial systems.

Rogier holds an MA in Business Economics from Groningen University (Finance, Investments and Accounting). He is fluent in English, French and German and is an ardent bicyclist, sailor, skier and, more recently, marathon runner.

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Velocity Capital Private Equity

Financial technology. It powers practically every transaction we make, everything we earn, buy, sell, borrow and lend. It connects people, instantly and without friction, to products and to each other. Fintech unites global communities, from urban networks of traders to the smallest of rural businesses. Plugging into financial technology can literally open up whole new worlds of opportunities. It’s a great leveler, an unleasher of human potential, the very stuff of the entrepreneurial spirit in everyone. read more

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Emerging markets credit startup Mines.io has closed a $13 million Series A round led by The Rise Fund, the global impact fund formed by private equity giant TPG, and 10 others, including Velocity Capital. read more

UniCredit announced that it has signed a strategic partnership with Meniga, the global leader in digital banking solutions. At the same time the Group has taken a minority stake in the company with a EUR 3.1 million investment through UniCredit EVO (Equity Venture Opportunities). read more

Cellulant, a leading Pan-African digital payments service provider that prompts, collects, settles and reconciles payments in real time, has raised $47.5 million from a consortium of investors. read more

Qapital, one of a slew of mobile applications trying to make it easier for users to save money (and spend it more wisely), has raised $30 million in fresh financing as it expands beyond savings to offer investment advisory services.
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Swedbank has invested EUR3 million in personal finance and data aggregation platform Meniga, as it begins the roll out of the firm's technology to customers in Sweden and the Baltic countries. read more